Characteristics of Australian B2B imarketplaces

Existing research on B2B iMarketplaces (and intermediaries operating them) focuses primarily on viewing US iMarketplace web sites or conducting case studies. This paper extends this work by presenting survey findings of the total identifiable population of Australian B2B iMarketplace intermediaries to describe the iMarketplace characteristics and to determine if the findings provide more generalisable support for the literature.<br /

E-business industry developments - 2001/02; Audit risk alerts

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Antitrust Analysis of B2B Transaction

B2B is a business-to-business market place that uses internet to connect each other business. It has gotten a lot more attention recently in Japan as well as in the U.S. because it is possible to lower the procurement costs of raw material and accomplish several procompetitive effects such as communication efficiencies. However, in spite of these pro transactional natures of B2B, it could also cause anticompetitive effects on market place. In other words, the fact that buyers communicate easily through the internet means they could easily form a cartel or conclude an agreement to restrain the free competition and it is easy to detect deviation from those agreements. There must have been buyers’ anticompetitive agreements long before B2B and these agreements were concluded without using the internet-based communication. However, the potential for B2B to aid buyers’ agreements is worth to get attention. Despite this importance, there have been little cases and studies concerning buyers’ agreement even in the U.S. and, in Japan, there have been neither cases nor the detail examination by the governmental agencies about buyers’ anticompetitive agreements. This is because traditionally sellers have had a strong bargaining power over purchasers. Therefore, little attention has been focused on anticompetitive effects which might be caused by buyers’ agreements. The internet, however, drastically changed the bargaining power balance between sellers and purchasers. It has made possible for purchasers to form a cartel to decrease the input purchased and lower the price through the web-based communication. The paper examines the competitive aspects of B2B from the view point of the antitrust law and analyzes oligopsony, that is, buyers’ collusion to exercise their market power to decrease the price of the products they are going to buy from suppliers by depressing the quantity of input purchased artificially. Drawing on microeconomic theory and antitrust law, the interdisciplinary work in the paper explores the implications of oligopsony, or buying power, for antitrust policy. The paper offers a systematic treatment of the topic, demonstrating that whether or not oligopsony power exists because of a dominant buyer or collusion among buyers, it can cause social welfare losses analogous to those occasioned by monopoly. The paper also discusses bilateral monopoly and offers a principled basis for distinguishing between socially desirable and undesirable cooperative buying. In addition, the paper analyzes the legal response to an oligopsony agreement in the U.S. as well as in Japan in order to examine how an oligopsony agreement should be treated. Further, the paper discusses tangential facts and circumstantial evidence to find an oligopsony agreement, because, in the antitrust practice, whether or not it is possible to find an agreement is sometimes the decisive point. The paper tries to provide the practical precepts to find an agreement which would be concluded on B2B

E-COMMERCE TECHNOLOGY MADE EASY

Electronic Commerce is the Modern Business Methodology To Address, Needs Of Organizations,  Merchants,  Commerce to Cut Costs and to do the following :-To improve quality/services/speed of  delivery; more commonly associated with buying and selling of information, products and services via computer networks today; EDI – Electronic Data Interchange; Latest and dependable way to deliver electronic transactions by computer to computer communication combined with (JIT) ; Just in time manufacturing methods; EDI and email used for many years. e-commerce is a transaction of buying or selling online. Electronic commerce draws on technologies such as mobile commerce, electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems

Decision Support System for Indonesian Government Fast E-Tendering Based on Vendor Classification

In the last few years in the world of auctions, electronic auctions become a hot topic for discussion, especially in Indonesia. In Indonesia, the auction has been using online electronic system since 2007 with all its advantages and disadvantages. This system is one of a fairly successful program in a good governance. Until now, there are 620 government agencies in Indonesia have been using this electronic procurement systems[19]. The Government can perform a budget efficiency nearly 5% of the total budget by using today's electronic procurement system. The current system is good enough, but there are still some deficiencies found. Some of solutions to cover the deficiency offered in this paper. Starting from the classification of goods or services according to the UNSPSC, applying business classification with ISIC Indonesia in 2009, recording the activity of vendors for consideration decision, and implementing a decision support system using AHP to facilitate the auction committee to determine the winner. All of above matters are intended to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the current system